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Director of first ever ‘Captain America’, Albert Pyun passes away at 69

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  The maker of 20 films including  Cyborg ,  The Sword and the Sorcerer ,  Nemesis , and  Captain America  was suffering from multiple sclerosis and dementia. Born in Hawaii on May 19, 1953, Pyun was raised as a military child and lived on bases across the globe before his family returned to the Rainbow State. Toshiro Mifune, a Japanese actor, encouraged Pyun to work as an intern on the set of Akira Kurosawa’s 1975 classic ‘Derzu Uzula’ after seeing one of Pyun’s short films. According to Variety, a US-based news outlet, a few years ago, Pyun received dual diagnoses of multiple sclerosis and dementia. His producer and wife Cynthia Curnan had been providing periodic updates on his health in the previous months. Over time, genre film viewers built a passionate following for Pyun’s work. Throughout his four-decade filmmaking career, Pyun collaborated with action heroes such as Burt Reynolds, Christopher Lambert, Jean-Claude Van Damme, actor-rapper Snoop Dogg, Charlie Sheen, Ice-T, Lance H
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UAE passport rule: Air India announces new guidelines for passengers (Amendment1) 24-Nov-2022

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  ·        Passport having one name only – Visa issued with more than one name, Passenger has Father’s or family name mentioned in the second page will be accepted. ·        Passport has one name only, passenger eligible for visa-on-arrival (VOA) if the Father’s name or family name mentioned in the second page will be accepted.
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UAE-India flights: Airline announces new rule for passengers

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  In a notice circulated to all travel agents in the UAE, Air India Express has announced that guests travelling to and from the UAE must ensure that their passports have their primary (first name) and secondary (surname) names. As per the updated guideline, “any passport holder with a single name (word) either in surname or given name will not be accepted by UAE immigration and the passenger will be considered as INAD" — a term which stands for inadmissible passenger. The new guideline will go into effect from November 21. Stating an example, the guideline outlines that if any passenger’s name in the passport lists a given name as Praveen with the surname as (blank) OR if his/her given name is (blank) with surname Praveen, then "such a passport will not be issued a visa and in case the visa was issued previously then he will be INAD by immigration.”
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